2007-09-02 13:53:26 · 29 answers · asked by Kerilyn 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
For me, its my 2 son's & grandchildren.*
2007-09-02 14:21:54 · update #1
I'm pretty self-involved---it's not really an act. That having been said, I'm happiest when I feel I've made a good impression or have captured someone's attention. I honestly try to be a good and helpful person, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love the emotional payoff and attention. My happiness is wrapped up in myself and how I feel I'm perceived.
I know that's shallow, but I'm being honest.
2007-09-02 14:14:14 · answer #1 · answered by Jack B, sinistral 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I am most content when I am able to behave in a way that I believe is as Christlike as I am able. I also took most of the week working with my eight year old graddaughter with the horses. I was wearing out physically, but she was making such great progress, as was her horse, I was able to press on. I am so glad I did. I am tired and sore, but very happy. I admit, I was nosy about what I was missing with my R&S friends!
2007-09-04 00:53:53 · answer #2 · answered by One Wing Eagle Woman 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What makes my life happy? Well, everyone wants to be happy but all things we have is just temporary. Other people may say that they will be happy if they have all the fortune in the world, some may say they will be happy if someone they love, love them in return. For me fortune, fame, or other material things people would like to have will someday be vanished. Although those thing really makes a person happy but in my own point view I've always think of my spiritual needs because i believe that this can gives us the true and everlasting happiness. Jesus said in Matthew 5:3 "Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need."
Why did Jesus say this? Because, unlike animals, we have spiritual needs. Created in God's image, we can to a degree cultivate divine attributes, such as love, justice, mercy, and wisdom. (Genesis 1:27; Micah 6:8; 1 John 4:8) Our spiritual needs include the need to have meaning in our life.
How can we satisfy such spiritual needs? Not through transcendental meditation or mere introspection. Rather, Jesus said: "Man must live, not on bread alone, but on every utterance coming forth through Jehovah's mouth." (Matthew 4:4) Notice, Jesus said that God is the source of "every utterance" vital to our life. Some questions only God can help us to answer. That insight is especially timely today, given the proliferation of theories about life's purpose and the way to happiness. Bookstores devote entire sections to works that promise readers health, wealth, and happiness. Internet sites dealing specifically with happiness have been set up.
Nevertheless, human thinking in these areas is often misguided. It tends to play to selfish desires or to the ego. It is based on limited knowledge and experience, and quite often it rests on false premises. For instance, a growing trend among writers of self-help books is to base their ideas on the theory of "evolutionary psychology," which assumes that human emotions are rooted in our supposed animal ancestry. The truth is, any effort to find happiness that is based on a theory that ignores the role of our Creator cannot be valid and will ultimately lead to disappointment. An ancient prophet said: "The wise ones have become ashamed. . . . Look! They have rejected the very word of Jehovah, and what wisdom do they have?"—Jeremiah 8:9.
Jehovah God knows our makeup and what will make us truly happy. He knows why he put man on the earth and what the future holds, and he shares that information with us in the Bible. What he reveals in that inspired book strikes a responsive chord in rightly disposed individuals and inspires happiness. (Luke 10:21; John 8:32) This was the case with two of Jesus' disciples. They were disconsolate following his death. But after learning from the mouth of the resurrected Jesus himself about his role in God's purpose for mankind's salvation, they said: "Were not our hearts burning as he was speaking to us on the road, as he was fully opening up the Scriptures to us?"—Luke 24:32.
Such joy intensifies when we allow Bible truth to guide our life. In this regard, happiness can be likened to a rainbow. It appears when conditions are favorable, but it becomes more brilliant—even becoming a double rainbow—when conditions are perfect. Let us now look at a few examples of how the application of Bible teachings can make for greater happiness.
2007-09-02 22:10:23 · answer #3 · answered by ainospetit 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God and the knowledge that he has a special plan of happiness for you, for me, for everyone here and each person in the world. All adversities and sadness are temporal. No bad is eternal... happiness and life will be ^_^
2007-09-03 18:25:22 · answer #4 · answered by Love Chuck!!! wannabe a Norris 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My son is the main reason. He keeps me living in the now and not the past.
2007-09-02 21:19:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Life itself makes me happy. To be alive is everything.
2007-09-02 21:54:16 · answer #6 · answered by retirist 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Meeeee!!!!!!!!
And, what makes ME happy?!!?!?!!!!???!!
The ability to see the good side of most happenings or disassociate myself with the things that don't make me happy like for instance people who feel the need to mix lotsa ?marks up with lotsa !marks.
2007-09-02 21:02:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those ideas and things that just turn my mind in a loop, and making music that i would like to think contains such ideas and things.
2007-09-02 21:00:56 · answer #8 · answered by LostKeys30 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Relationships - with God, my family, friends, acquaintances. Interaction with others, and helping others, giving of myself. Those are the things that bring me true happiness.
2007-09-02 21:05:35 · answer #9 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For me, there is very little.
Speaking to certain friends is helpful,
however,
the majority of my existence is consumed by depression.
2007-09-02 21:47:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋